The Middle Ages contained some of the most interesting classes of people this world has ever seen. The amount of knowledge that is possessed from this era is very little, but the quantity of what the world does possess gives the people fascinating information about what life was like in those days. The most remarkable piece is the class system and just how corrupt the church system was at that time. Geoffrey Chaucer does a fantastic job at showing this corruption. The church system contained the Ecclesiastical class. The egotistical Ecclesiastical class was not only diabolical, but manipulative as well.
The Ecclesiastical class was supposed to be a symbol of warm hearted, god loving people, but it is nothing more than people who only care about themselves. The most prime example of this is the Pardoner. This person would happily steal …show more content…
The most notable of this standard would be the monk. He claimed to be a man of God, but instead he only followed the rules that he felt were important. He may have been a good person, but he was far from a true man of God. “The rule of good St Benet and St Maur as old and strict he tended to ignore”(Chaucer, 7). An honest holy man would not disobey God’s words and that is exactly what the monk. These church members were suppose to lead by example but instead they gave the people a false reality.
A true sin this class represents is manipulating the followers of the church. The biggest representative of this horrid sin would be the Summoner. He would rather take people’s money instead of sending them to the court. (Raphel, “The Canterbury Tales Prologue”). This man had a sense of heartless behavior that made him seem so horrid and monstrous. “He will allow a man to keep his mistress for a year and excuse him in full”(Raphel, "The Canterbury Tales Characters: The Summoner"). He would interfere with a man’s thinking just to get a quick buck out of
The Ecclesiastical class was supposed to be a symbol of warm hearted, god loving people, but it is nothing more than people who only care about themselves. The most prime example of this is the Pardoner. This person would happily steal …show more content…
The most notable of this standard would be the monk. He claimed to be a man of God, but instead he only followed the rules that he felt were important. He may have been a good person, but he was far from a true man of God. “The rule of good St Benet and St Maur as old and strict he tended to ignore”(Chaucer, 7). An honest holy man would not disobey God’s words and that is exactly what the monk. These church members were suppose to lead by example but instead they gave the people a false reality.
A true sin this class represents is manipulating the followers of the church. The biggest representative of this horrid sin would be the Summoner. He would rather take people’s money instead of sending them to the court. (Raphel, “The Canterbury Tales Prologue”). This man had a sense of heartless behavior that made him seem so horrid and monstrous. “He will allow a man to keep his mistress for a year and excuse him in full”(Raphel, "The Canterbury Tales Characters: The Summoner"). He would interfere with a man’s thinking just to get a quick buck out of